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Thomas Hammock
2019-2025 • Northern Illinois
One defining program at Northern Illinois.
Thomas Hammock coached 7 seasons, won 45.7%, and posted an average SRS of -10.4. Best season: 2024 Northern Illinois. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 32-38
- Career win rate
- 45.7%
- Average SRS
- -10.4
- Peak SRS
- -1.1
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 7
- Career span
- 7 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 65.4
Primary school anchor
Northern Illinois
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 32.5.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Thomas Hammock
EliteStrongAverageLean
2019Actual season year • SRS range -17.2 to -1.12025
Active comparison point
Thomas Hammock • 2024
2024 Northern Illinois
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-5 • SRS -1.1 • SP Overall -3.5
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
+7.7
SP Off / Def
20.0 / 21.6
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
1-1
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 50.0%
Top 5
1-0
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 100.0%
View ranked game results4
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Northern Illinois
2019-2025 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -10.4 • Win % 45.7%
- Longest tenure
- Northern Illinois • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Northern Illinois • -10.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Northern Illinois • 45.7%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Thomas Hammock sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeThomas Hammock sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Thomas Hammock
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.3
- Percentile
- 25th pct
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Northern Illinois
2019-2025 • 32-38
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -10.4Win % 45.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.6 during vs 8.0 baseline
-3.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-10.4 during vs -2.5 baseline
-7.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-11.3 during vs -1.6 baseline
-9.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Northern Illinois 2024
8-5 • SRS -1.1
Biggest Improvement
Northern Illinois 2024
8-5 • 7.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Northern Illinois 2021
9-5 • SP Off 29.4
Best Defensive Season
Northern Illinois 2024
8-5 • SP Def 21.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
Northern Illinois 2025
0-0 • SRS -17.2
Biggest Drop
Northern Illinois 2025
0-0 • -16.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Northern Illinois | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | -17.2 | -16.7 | 12.0 | 28.1 | -16.1 | — |
| Northern Illinois | 2024 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -1.1 | -3.5 | 20.0 | 21.6 | +7.7 | +7.7% |
| Northern Illinois | 2023 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -8.8 | -7.5 | 18.3 | 24.2 | +6.2 | +28.8% |
| Northern Illinois | 2022 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -15.0 | -18.8 | 25.3 | 43.1 | -9.0 | -39.3% |
| Northern Illinois | 2021 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | -6.0 | -7.1 | 29.4 | 36.1 | — | +64.3% |
| Northern Illinois | 2020 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -41.7% |
| Northern Illinois | 2019 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -14.5 | -13.9 | 20.7 | 34.2 | — | — |
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